Greetings to steem Venezuela!

_{Edited by me on pixellab}

Introduction

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You're welcome to my blog and it's again a fresh week of contests. The steemit Engagement contest week 4 day 1 and after going through the contest for this week, I dived into this art contest organised by steem Venezuela.

Here's my entry!

Twist, turn and fold the papers and you can have a beautiful world around you with origami.

Warm wishes on World Origami Day.” “Origami is all about exploring your creative side and enjoying life. Wishing a very Happy World Origami Day.”

Origami comes from two Japanese words "Ori" which means folding while " gami" or " orikata"meaning paper. The transition to origami came to use in 1880.

This brings us to folding paper right? But offcourse it's not just about any folding pieces of papers to put in a wallet or pocket. I meant folding paper into beautiful objects, plants, insects, animals and more! We can do origami of flowers, butterflies, dogs, cats,birds and more. This means it's way to far from just folding, it's therefore an art of craft.

_{My son posing for me}
It's a hobby for the little and older people. I had tried a little of origami works before this contest and I must say it's fun no matter if you're a beginner or an expert.

Before diving into the main thing, let's review the great personality as far as origami is fetched. A person who does the art of origami is an origamist or an origamian.
How to begin folding origami. Some of the notables and their works.

They're three main types of origami folds each aspiring origami should learn.
These basic folds are; valley, mountain and squash fold.
Learn more about it here, source

Names	works
Martin and Erik Demaine	Father and son team who used flat paper into swirling forms
Peter Engel	Author of several origami books including origami from angelfish to Zen, 10 fold origami, fabulous paperfolds and more
Tomoko Fuse	Famous for boxes and unit origami
Ilan Garibi	Israeli origami artist
Alice Gray	co-founder of the nonprofit friends of the origami center in new York
Robert Harbin	popularized origami in Britain
Jacob Hashimoto	created a large-scale paper mobile at Mary Boone Gallery
David Lister	founding member of the British origami society
Sipho Mabona	Swiss and south African origami master who created a life sized elephant from a single piece of paper.
Jun Maekawa	Software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models
Matthew T. Mason	American roboticist who developed the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks.
Ligia Montoya	Argentine paper-folder who played a crucial role in establishing paper folding as an international movement
John Montroll	probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 40books on origami
Florence Temko	piooner in spreading origami in the United States
Nick Robinson	professional origami artist and author of over one hundred books on origami

Source

Though you can use all kinds of papers, it's best if thin ,square because they'll easily take to folds. Colorful papers makes it beautiful but for today I'm stuck at home and will make use of what I have. We're on a ghost week so I definitely can purchase any colourful paper.

  Choosing your origami model

Here, you're just deciding the type of easy origami you want to fold. They're origami that you can't achieve without using scissors, glue or measuring tape but this competition requires just paper and hand magic, trust me you'll I will do good stuff.

For this competition, im going to be doing origami of an object o love which is a great feature in steemit, a wallet.

Just like a steemit wallet, every account in steemit has its own wallet which their currencies reside. All rewards earned in steemit resides in their wallet and so do I use my wallet in real life, I can't possibly go somewhere without my wallet because all my identification papers are kept inside and money too

_{The different steps used in producing my origami (wallet)}

Conclusion

My Origami experience is one that I will love endulging myself to over and over again because the mental, emotional and physical benefits; watch the process here

Origami ease the hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and concentration. Hand usage stimulate some areas of the brain which helps in the art therapy in stroke. This is the finished wallet here
Paper folding helps our hands to be active and mind creative in design. During a section of paper folding, impulses are sent to the brain . different visual like tactile are brought to use. Attention, 3D comprehension are stimulated by the origami creativity.

With this experience, I was emotionally satisfied as I used a paper and my hands in a new creation. Though some may use their relaxation period for origami, but the byproduct surpasses each time and thinking put in place.

I therefore invite @monjuagnes, @chiabertrand , @breeze.com, @wirngo to participate in this challenge.

Thanks for reading through my post!
Till we meet again, take care🌹🌹
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